Top 160 Jesse Ventura Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You can’t put civil rights on the ballot.”

— Jesse Ventura

102. “I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book ‘War is a Racket.’”

— Jesse Ventura

103. “I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.”

— Jesse Ventura

104. “I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government’s feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.”

— Jesse Ventura

105. “Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.”

— Jesse Ventura

106. “A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.”

— Jesse Ventura

107. “Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.”

— Jesse Ventura

108. “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you’d want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.”

— Jesse Ventura

109. “Don’t vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.”

— Jesse Ventura

110. “Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn’t that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.”

— Jesse Ventura

111. “I’ve been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it’s torture.”

— Jesse Ventura

112. “I’m the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, ‘What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,’ but apparently that doesn’t apply to me.”

— Jesse Ventura

113. “Government is like physics, you know – for every action, there’s a reaction.”

— Jesse Ventura

114. “People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.”

— Jesse Ventura

115. “My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.”

— Jesse Ventura

116. “I’m an equal opportunity despiser.”

— Jesse Ventura

117. “It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.”

— Jesse Ventura

118. “Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There’s nothing you can do about it.”

— Jesse Ventura

119. “For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don’t have to pay income tax that day because they’re not working.”

— Jesse Ventura

120. “We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free – if we were, we’d allow people their freedom. Prohibiting something doesn’t make it go away. Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it’s run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it’s legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.”

— Jesse Ventura

121. “Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn’t: Go stick your head in the mud.”

— Jesse Ventura

122. “Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.”

— Jesse Ventura

123. “I can’t see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.”

— Jesse Ventura

124. “Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.”

— Jesse Ventura

125. “If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.”

— Jesse Ventura

126. “The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.”

— Jesse Ventura

127. “In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.”

— Jesse Ventura

128. “I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I’m off the grid. I’ve tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody’s listening.”

— Jesse Ventura

129. “I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?”

— Jesse Ventura

130. “I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.”

— Jesse Ventura

131. “If Jesus came back today, I think he’d throw up.”

— Jesse Ventura

132. “I’m not allowed on FOX, and I’m not allowed on MSNBC.”

— Jesse Ventura

133. “There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.”

— Jesse Ventura

134. “I never thought I’d be investigating global warming. I believe it’s real and that saving the planet is good.”

— Jesse Ventura

135. “Government cannot be your parent.”

— Jesse Ventura

136. “If Waterboarding is okay, then why don’t we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it’s against the law. If we’re not going to be a country that stand’s for the rule of law, when it’s convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for.”

— Jesse Ventura

137. “There’s nothing glamorous about war at all.”

— Jesse Ventura

138. “People don’t like politicians.”

— Jesse Ventura

139. “You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you’re all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That’s a stereotype that happens.”

— Jesse Ventura

140. “Love is bigger than government.”

— Jesse Ventura

141. “The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.”

— Jesse Ventura

142. “You don’t need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.”

— Jesse Ventura

143. “If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I’d not only run, I’d win.”

— Jesse Ventura

144. “There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can’t possibly all be served by government.”

— Jesse Ventura

145. “When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It’s not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.”

— Jesse Ventura

146. “I’ve jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I’ve dove 212 feet under water. I’ve done a lot of things that defied death.”

— Jesse Ventura

147. “My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.”

— Jesse Ventura

148. “Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.”

— Jesse Ventura

149. “Is it government’s job to make up for someone’s mistakes?”

— Jesse Ventura

150. “I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.”

— Jesse Ventura